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Google has had many logos since its renaming from BackRub. The current official Google logo was designed by Ruth Kedar, and is a wordmark based on the Catull typeface. The company also includes various modifications and/or humorous features, such as cartoon modifications of their logo for use on holidays, birthdays of famous people, and major events, such as the Olympics. These special logos, some designed by Dennis Hwang, have become known as Google Doodles. Google subsidiary YouTube has also featured some custom logos to highlight special events occurring on the site, these have been unofficially nicknamed "Yoodles".

In 1998, Sergey Brin created a computerized version of the Google letters using the free graphics program GIMP. The typeface was changed and an exclamation mark was added, mimicking the Yahoo! logo. "There were a lot of different color iterations", says Ruth Kedar, the graphic designer who developed the now-famous logo. "We ended up with the primary colors, but instead...

Today's Google Doodle is a special treat for puzzle lovers -- a fully functional, animated Rubik's Cube. Click on the cube that adorns Google homepage today, and its faces will get randomly mixed up, rendering most of us unable to work for a couple h...

Don't have the time for a real Easter egg hunt this Sunday? Turn to Google instead. The search engine has been hiding Easter eggs -- hidden features and tricks -- inside its site for years. Sometimes they're elaborate, like the entire video game hidd...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Perhaps that's why emojis, the lovable little icons that have become the mainstay of our texting lexicon, are such a widely used form of expression. In honor of this quirky legion of tiny smileys, we aske...

Google took users on a trip into high-art territory on Saturday by posting a minimalist Google Doodle to honor the memory of famed abstract painter Agnes Martin. Born on March 22, 1912 in Canada, Martin moved to the United States in 1932 and became a...

Google is celebrating the spring equinox on Thursday with a flowery, animated Doodle. Google's homepage features a character that pours water above the search bar, causing sprouts to shoot up and turn into its familiar logo. The spring equinox usuall...

Today's Google Doodle is a video celebrating International Women's Day, which is marked each year on March 8. The Doodle is not yet available on Google's homepage in the United States, but it displays in the UK, New Zealand and Australia, among other...

Forget its risqué rep -- Snapchat has a sensitive side. A heartfelt snap with a well-placed emoji can strengthen the bonds of love for evermore. Or at least for 10 seconds. This week, we asked Mashable snapchatters to send us some love for our Mashab...

Need an idea for a Valentine's card? You're in luck: Google has a special interactive doodle for Valentine's day on its homepage which lets you send a virtual box of assorted treats to someone you love. You can fill up your chocolate box with a choic...

One day ahead of the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Google has made a strong pro-LGBT statement with its latest homepage Google Doodle, which appears on every country's version of Google, including the Russian homepage...

Saturday's U.S. Google Doodle features Civil War-era abolitionist and humanitarian Harriet Tubman, marking the start of Black History Month. Tubman is most well-known for leading more than 300 slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad over a peri...

We've all come to appreciate the communicative power of a picture. In the era of emojis, memes, selfies and #tbts, it's easy to see why Snapchat has also taken the world by storm. With a few swipes of the finger, you can doodle onto your picture mess...

Monday's Google Doodle honors the legendary civil rights activist Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as the nation celebrates with parades, marches and church sermons. King was born on Jan. 15, 1929, and the federal holiday that celebrates his life fa...

Today's Google Doodle celebrates the birthday of Dian Fossey, American zoologist best known for her study of gorillas. Fossey studied gorilla groups over the period of 18 years in Africa, founding the Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda. A lot of her ...

If by any chance you forgot that today is the craziest day of the year, you'll be reminded as soon as you open Google's homepage, where a jolly, animated Doodle is doing a disco dance. Further down on the page Google also offers a reminder of how we ...

Google Doodles have often catered to the mathematically and scientifically savvy, but now there's one for word nerds. Friday's doodle salutes the 100th anniversary of the crossword puzzle, which will happen on Saturday, Dec. 21. The first such puzzle...

Today's Google Doodle is an animated tribute to computer scientist and United States Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, who was born on Dec. 9, 1906 in New York City. Hopper is best known for being one of the designers of COBOL, one of the first modern ...

Today's Google Doodle commemorates the birthday of American-born opera singer Maria Callas, who was born Dec. 2, 1923 in New York City. The Doodle depicts Callas singing against the backdrop of an opera house. Famous for her bel canto technique, Call...

Doctor Who fans, get ready to lose all remaining productivity. The latest Google Doodle just went live on Google New Zealand, and is about to roll out around the world. It's an 8-bit platform game in which you play the Doctor through all his 11 incar...

Lately, Google has been conjuring up increasingly more intricate Doodles, but today's logo on the company's homepage is very simple. Celebrating the International Children's Day, the Doodle depicts a group of kids of different ethnicities holding han...

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